So beautifully and lovingly written Mary. I think you nailed the resistance: they want us to BELIEVE them. They've got an identity-snag going on. If they are not right, then they are no longer the authorities and that's hard. They're basically throwing a tantrum.
The story is so much bigger. Materialism has been a box humans are breaking free from in larger numbers and the whole false-paradigm is going to shite. Yippee!! :-)
Which reminds of this short video I watched this morning. (10mins)
A challenge to a long standing theory on universal grammar. (Largely credited to Noam Chomsky who met the challenge by casting personal attacks on the upending researcher. The question is not yet settled - more are looking into it, but I suspect it's another deep assumption that's about to die.)
Love this subject and the much larger questions it raises. I have the bones of book called Living Faith: Freeing God from Religion. This is very much the same.
Inquiry and wonder will always exceed any theory - we really can't pin down our reality since it evolves and changes, along with us.
We need bigger minds and hearts to become our new experts.
The Pirahã! (I'm just now getting to your linked video.) I stumbled upon their existence a while ago, and referenced them in a few essays because their relationship to language absolutely FLOORED me. I watched this clip; did a full documentary ever get released?
It's pretty remarkable, yes. I don't know on whether there is a full documentary. I haven't looked into it. But am definitely curious if the 2nd team verifies his results. (I hope so.)
Thanks for linking this video, Kathleen, both for the content and because it got me to sweep ;-) SO interesting! Linguistics is the key to so much. When Mary writes about 'science' changing from the active voice to the passive voice, it was a revelation. It gives the 'object' agency instead of making it subjective to the perception. It's 'objectivity' as if that's a thing without anyone interpreting it.
I've been noticing that men, in particular, speak in declarative sentences. 'This is this way. Case closed.' Women more often speak from their relationship to the observation, 'I think, I feel.'
As you can see, I started this paragraph with 'I've been noticing ...' So your experience can differ without negating mine. It doesn't shut down the conversation, as it would if I'd written "Men speak in declarative sentences." Then you're either arguing with me or accepting my 'authority.'
Three observations from the video, all of which begin with YES and ...
I recently read about Sanskrit because a commenter on the Doc Malik interview wrote, "Latin is a synthetic language? I thought it evolved from Sanskrit, etc" I answered, "On Latin, I just looked up its relation to Sanskrit and it seems like it would have devolved, if anything. Sanskrit uses musical tonalities and the masterpiece work of its grammar was produced in 450 BCE. It's called the language of the gods for its beauty and subtlety. Latin is an abbreviated language that takes up 2/3rds of the space of indigenous languages to say the same things. It seems to have been developed for lawyers and accountants, with precise meanings for things and quantities but lacking nuance on human relationships. Hebrew is also an administrative language. For Laurent Guyenot's work into the linguistic clues that we've been misled about ancient history, this one references him: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/the-myth-of-ad."
And in this episode, I talk about how indigenous languages have many more words for specifics of human relationships and details of the place where generations had lived: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/when-words-die-worlds-die. Hebrew lacks vowels, which are the relationships between consonants, just like verbs connect nouns. Anthropologist Wade Davis writes, "Language is nothing less than the living expression of a culture, part of what he calls an ethnosphere, ‘the sum total of all the thoughts, dreams, ideals, myths, intuitions, and inspirations brought into being by the imagination since the dawn of consciousness.’ … Language also represents ‘breathtakingly intricate beauty,’ aesthetic and intellectual wealth contained within the invisible folds of sound. Despite languages’ preciousness, one perishes on average every two weeks."
Last, our buddy Noam. I used to think he was once sincere and had developed his ability to think clearly through linguistics. But now I'm suspecting he's always been a fake. His respect for other people's cultures is as shallow as his view of anarchy--which can only be implemented after we solve climate change through global governance. Or his regard for bodily sovereignty, after we evict the unvaxxed from society: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/noam-chomsky-is-the-problem.
Living Faith and freeing God from religion sounds right up my alley. Thank you, Kathleen!
Glad you enjoyed the video, Tereza, and of course I thought of you when listening to it. :-)
"When Mary writes about 'science' changing from the active voice to the passive voice, it was a revelation. It gives the 'object' agency instead of making it subjective to the perception. It's 'objectivity' as if that's a thing without anyone interpreting it."
Glad you noted that - it was a revelation for me too and really, moving to the passive voice, added to the illusion (or the trick as you might say) that there is a clear object/subject divide. Of course we know this is not the case.
(You'd think these experts would be more up on the implications of quantum mechanics and entanglement, wouldn't you?)
Also new to me was Latin as an abbreviated language - seemingly designed to quantify (objectify) things, which is certainly aligned with a materialistic view. It does make a person wonder. How did that come into being in a world of relationships?
Almost as if it was imposed (to replace) or layered over (to distort) a more natural, organic and inclusive language. Almost as if it came with an agenda.
And yes, I so agree on Noam. Used to be a big fan... now it seems he was hijacked long ago and serves the usual forces of control. Covid was the final nail. And truly if he was open minded and curious, then the report on the Piraha would garnered interest and excitement. Instead he was (quite unremarkably) threatened.
Adios old versions of 'expert'. We're moving on. Thanks, T. And glad you got the sweeping done!
Well, you two are off to the races on a subject near and dear to my heart! In fact, for my next post I was (am?) planning to address language -- and your thoughts are FASCINATING. Thank you both for offering up resources! When I'm off the road (traveling for a few days right now) I'll dive more deeply into all. Damn, you two are powerhouses. So grateful to be in your intelligent, expansive sphere...xox!
Thank you, Kathleen! "The story is so much bigger." Ain't THAT the truth. 😂
You keep leaving delicious breadcrumbs for me that encircle that truth. Pointing me toward Reinette's roundtable was so invaluable! I had flagged it for later, which often relegates it to obscurity I'm sad to say... but your recommendation brought it back to the fore. Both my husband and I benefitted GREATLY from it, thank you!!
And now what really jazzed me about your comment: "I have the bones of a book." Kathleen! I'm so excited! I want to know more, and support you in putting enough flesh on those bones to get it up and moving in the world! Tell me more, friend!!
Finally, I love these gems: "Inquiry and wonder will always exceed any theory" and "We need bigger minds and hearts to become our new experts." Gorgeous. xoxox
As I read through this, the words that kept coming to me were Harmony and Complement.
When the pendulum swings out too far in either intuition or reason, fanaticism follows.
Both are required, in harmony, for a healthy, happy, self-aware individual to find their greatest path.
Harmony and complement, right and left brain, male and female...
Our recent history has been dominated by the left brain, the male energy of reason. Call it "science" if you like. Since the turn of this century, we have been returning to the right brain, female energy of intuition, though none of it has anything to do with males and females.
This after the so-called "women's movement" of the late 20th century, which had nothing to do with right-brain, female energy, but more to do with women expressing more left brain to match their male counterparts. And while it was necessary to counteract male dominance, it did nothing to advance the right brain, female "energy."
This was not the answer, only more of the same predominance of a lack of intuition.
Now this has changed, and we can see everywhere the result of the pendulum swinging back from fanatical left brain dominance into a more nuanced balance.
This is all due to the prescient Shift in Consciousness in which humanity is becoming more self-aware and willing to entertain subject matter that cannot be reproduced in a laboratory.
Men and women everywhere are much more free to express both these energies in balance, in complement, in *harmony*.
Our best work, as usual, is to ignore the so-called "experts" in the peanut galleries of our world, and move forward - advancing interest and acceptance of this female energy of intuition, and recognizing its rightful place in the balance of our physical reality.
A great finish to the series, Mary, and I can't wait to see what comes next for us!
Yes, Philip, we are finding the necessary balance! I will be ECSTATIC to never see another action hero movie where the female lead is a martial arts expert/computer wizard gunning down bad guys in cold blood for the CIA. For decades, we've been told that it's "female empowerment," yet as you say, that kind of male-wannabe crap has done nothing to advance true female energy.
Harmony and Complement... perfect. Always found in "madhya," the middle path.
Thank you, as always, for your insightful comment. I can't wait to see what's next, either! xox
Yes, it's not either or but that we should have both sides of the brain in balance.
I'm male but I had a lot of female influence growing up and pretty much see technology and politics with my right brain. It helps me a lot in work where many are busy focusing on the details, the objects, while I see the machine/system as a whole. Both are important but only recently I've received support by my coworkers and management because things are breaking down in odd ways. I think this is also happening in other places, not just at technical jobs like mine.
The right brain is a great bullshit detector. As McGilchrist explains, it's the master and checks the left brain calculations.
"The mistake that is made by many traditional philosophers, he (Bergson) suggests, is to believe that freeing one’s attention up in this way necessitates turning one’s back on practical life, rather than, in fact, embracing it. ‘One should act like a man of thought’, he wrote, in a memorable formulation, ‘and think like a man of action. "
-Ian McGilchrist from The Matter with Things
From chapter 4 of Ian McGilchrist 's book The Matter with Things:
"One related difference between right and left prefrontal cortex activation is that the left dominates where belief bias points to the correct conclusion, and, by contrast, the right dominates where it does not. Belief bias is in fact generally associated with the left hemisphere, not with the right hemisphere."
Also chapter 4
"To put it crudely, the right hemisphere is our bullshit detector. It is better at avoiding nonsense when asked to believe it, but it is also better at avoiding falling prey to local prejudice and just dismissing rational argument because the argument does not happen to agree with that prejudice"
And here's one of my favorite psychonauts saying it so simply.
“Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.” - Robert Anton Wilson
Thanks, Rob, for the additional McGilchrist quotes -- they're just perfect. And surprising, too. I wouldn't have guessed that "Belief bias is in fact generally associated with the left hemisphere, not with the right hemisphere." I wonder if that's why I noticed more women seeing through the covid nonsense? Or perhaps that's not accurate -- it may be that women were speaking up more b/c they (in general) are more connected to the health of their kids.
Wilson's quote is a keeper, too. I've never heard of him, so thank you for bringing him to my awareness.
One question: what did you mean by "things are breaking down in odd ways"? Just curious...
A decade or 2 ago, management decided to upgrade reliable and easy to fix old stuff with newer high tech stuff that required less labor to operate. They reduced the workforce by spending money on fancy bullshit.
My fiance is seeing the same issue in her white collar office job, where software that is supposed to make work easier is just causing more headaches. Her workplace is also smaller than it used to be and management is slow to hire more workers despite their needs.
Now it's biting them in the ass because a lot of these things are propietary and complicate things. They're not built to last like the old stuff! So whatever savings they expected is now piling on them.
Even though I'm more tech friendly than my colleagues, I have a difficult time in dealing with the bugs of these systems because they're designed to be serviced only by the manufacturer, some of which have left the business! Replacement is an option but that requires a lot of time, so right now we're kind of hacking our way around the equipment to make it work. I don't see how this is sustainable.
There's a section in this article about how ford is starting to build their own tech for their cars because dealing with propietary systems is the reason why they have issues with their cars.
Now I understand; thank you for the explanation, Rob! What a mess. I feel like it's all engineered to make us more and more helpless -- who can fix their own cars, refrigerators, etc. anymore? Let alone their phones or computers? -- AND it's making us spend more and more money on "necessary upgrades." I'm so done with it all. (I'm also looking forward to reading this article you've shared, so thanks for that.)
Mary, half our job was calming down the user, then we'd have a much better chance of success in solving problems.
Of course I just told them that the computers feared me, and they would stop acting up as soon as I showed up.
my customers just knowing I was a phone call or email away made everything work better. They wouldn't get frustrated, and the computers wouldn't react to them.
Well put, Philip. I really resonated with Mary's description of left brain dominance as the imbalance in our current situation. And I loved that the male is the river, the female is the current, speaking of which!
You describe the psyop of the 'women's movement' perfectly. Harmony is exactly right.
Thank you for bringing this podcast to my attention. I am already a materialism escapee, and this information is at work turning my world upside-down. It's easy for me to feel the unease from the proudly hardcore materialists.
I LOVED this so much, Mary, that I'll never read you again ;-)
I have been missing out on the treat of hearing your voice, with all its nuance, snark and inflection, opting instead for 'efficiency.' But this time I was cooking breakfast and missing you, being spoiled from the double-luxury of seeing you in person twice. And it added so much richness hearing the words come alive that I'll never be efficient again!
In the spirit of 'yes and ...' I think it's the opposite of belief that we need. In Manifesting vs Miracles, I wrote about the Tinkerbelle Syndrome, where we think it's up to us and our conviction to make something happen or not happen. That's manifesting, in my use of the word.
The miracle is withdrawing the belief in the 'laws' of the material world, particularly our isolation and disconnectedness. Questioning whether we're really limited in communication. Being willing to doubt the world of our sensory perception and the 'skin-encapsulated ego' we define as our self. Erasing the past as a 'known' predictor of the future. Sinking into the 'now' as a pivot point.
And then letting your experience show you what's real and what's illusion.
Belief, as I define it, is making up your mind in advance of your experience.
Reality/ truth/ God doesn't need our belief in order to be real. It just is. We just need to remove the obstacles to it.
And, of course, this is the day I'm going out to feed and perhaps ride my friend's horses. I'll be telling her all about Kim and Luna. Thank you!
Ah, efficiency. The bane of my existence. 🙄 Thank you for letting me know your experience of listening rather than reading! I'll keep doing it!
Ooh, you make some great points, Tereza. Really thought-provoking and beautifully expressed. I think we'd have to come to an agreement about what the word "belief" really means... but overall I love where you're going with this.
And I miss you, too! I hope you got to ride! xoxox
Oh my goodness, Mary. So many gems here, I don't know where to start. I know I sound like a broken record whenever I comment on a post (not just yours) where science is involved. And, logically (pun intended), I know that science and the unexplainable can co-exist..
Although...seriously...is science necessary?? :) I don't know why, but I get bothered when everything that seems extraordinary or unexplainable or magical needs to be validated. Why this need to prove everything?
So much Magic has been educated out of us. I think that art saved me from becoming a “non-believer.” I remember a book from my art education days (even that makes me cringe…art “education” I could have saved myself a lot of money because in the end I just wanted to become part of the abstraction I saw everywhere. The book was titled “Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain” by Betty Edwards. It was the first time I learned of the left/right sides of the brain. Giant fireworks went off in my head when I read that. The right side. The creative side.
I love your explanation of Shiva and Shakti. We need them both. We need the right and the left, the yin and the yang, etc.
I no longer worry about people who arrogantly speak or write like the author of the McGill article. I feel a little sorry for them. He would probably want to have me committed (maybe for experimentation!) I once had a tree talk to me in Ireland. I can't explain it. I wasn't on drugs. I wasn't imagining it. My Irish friend was there as a witness.
I doubt that shamans of old (and present) didn’t/don’t live their lives based on empirical evidence.
Thank you for sharing the beautiful story of Kim and Luna. Years ago, I was at an energy healing workshop where I had a profound experience with a horse. It surely felt like telepathy.
I hope your children do read this exquisite piece, and it opens their minds and hearts. I love the quote on your daughter’s bracelet. I am a lone Magic-believing wolf in my own family…including my adult children. I’m not sure where or from whom I inherited the Magic side. It makes me laugh now to think about how much I hated the science fair. :)
You did “The Telepathy Tapes” proud, Mary. I hope you share your series with Ky Dickens. XOXO
Barbara, I'm so with you. Theatre saved me; it gave me permission to feel, fully and completely, and it taught me how to listen underneath words for the intention behind them. I was never meant for left-brain-dominant living -- though I had no idea of that, for so long! We DO need both.
I am planning to write a bit more about Kim and Luna. She has a stunning anecdote that sounds similar to your profound experience; I just didn't have space in the series for it!
Thank you for your unwavering support, friend. Now go outside again and listen to the tree-folk; they're waiting for you.
All love...xox PS -- great idea re: Ky Dickens! I'll do what I can to make that happen!
It took me awhile to finally get around to reading this post because I knew I had to soak it in without distraction. I love how you weaves the themes of love and relationship and universal law. This whole series is so darn rich particularly because it does reframe the posited theme: “what is actually wrong with BELIEVING?!?”
You listen to any grand athlete or actor or when scientist and eventually “belief” prefaces their actual work. Babe Ruth would talk about seeing the ball fly over the fence before every home run; some actors can’t even come out of believing they’re the person whose role they play; Tesla believes energy can be entirely free way before he designed a coil.
Thank you for also sharing the story of Luna- reminds me of that scheme in Avatar where the horse and the rider have to link up spiritually/physically before they can fly into the skies.
This series of essays should be what’s printed for public view not the hogwash “debunking” it. I encourage you to submit all three parts as a whole for the op-Ed section of the same publication.
I'm so touched that you took the time to "soak" in this series, Tonika. 🙏🏼
You're 100% right about the primordial, driving force of belief... it's what sets it all in motion. Without it, we're slugs in the mud. (No offense, slugs.)
I really wonder what McGill's publication would think of my series. That's such a great idea! I'm going to see if they even accept Op-Eds...😂👏
Thanks for the comment. I always love your take on my stuff. AS YOU KNOW. xox!
Hi Mary, I'm embarrassed to say that I was the one complaining that I had to wait two weeks for this last installment to your TTT series, and then it took me another week to finally get here. Better late than never, I guess. Sometimes, timing does matter, so I am glad that I came back, especially to read your quote:
"It makes sense to me that relationship.... is a fundamental universal law, perhaps even the fundamental universal law, because there is one energy that underlies, supports, and weaves this whole impossibly vast tapestry together: love." That hits the nail on the head, Mary, and coincides with what I had just written about "Revolutionary Relationship". I'm all about relationship, not that I do it all that well, which is why I need to "practice it". I used the Trinity as a model, but Kim and Luna, and Helen and Anne, are also perfect models for us to follow as well.
Anyway, that's my take-away after my second reading, and I thank you, Mary, for all your hard work in researching, pondering, and writing these fabulous essays. Uh-Oh, I just got another "Mary" Inspiration, as in "Mary, the mother of Jesus". She was the one who did all that "pondering" after being told what was in store for her. You're quite the "ponderer" yourself, Mary.
I'm always happy to hear your thoughts, no matter when they float in here...😊
Relationship is where the true transformation for all of us lies... that's why it's so effing difficult!! I've certainly been experiencing that phenomenon lately.
Sheesh... I don't think there's any higher compliment than being compared -- even tangentially -- to THE Mary. So thank you, humbly. Big love to you, Ronnie. xoxo
What a beautiful piece. Thanks to you Mary I have listened to all the tapes out so far. I am in tears much of the time as it is all so inspirational and ...and... I don't even have a word that encapsulates what I feel- beyond beautiful!! I haven't paid one ounce of attention to the naysayers. In fact I sometimes felt like she didn't need to keep going on about how well the experiments were done. I just believed. I guess it comes down to if one believes that we are so much more then these physical bodies or not. Thank you so much for your heartfelt and stunning sharing.
Oh Nan, your comment fills me with joy. I'm so very glad that your experience listening to TTT moved you in this way! I felt just the same. I've thought that I didn't fully express in this series how it moved me -- I was so intent on getting people who were skeptical to ask themselves WHY they were conditioned to reject it -- but to know that my work actually induced you to listen... well, I feel like I did what I set out to do. So thank you for letting me know. xox
Amazing writings to bring us further. Thank you so much for this. I read the three parts with great interest and much emotions/reflexions.
You ask "What do you think about telepathy, or consciousness"?
If I may share my thoughts, I am not a young pigeon but it seems that I have always think that telepathy was natural to any human being (and some animals also). To me it is only a question of recognizing and developing it.
I for one, as I grew older, realized that many, many times I can fell what other people are feeling, almost instantly when I am in close contact with them, and often too when they are far away. More likely if they think about me? But I don't think I have special abilities. I think this kind of perception is within each of us.
Then, the more consciousness one has about his feelings and inner space, the more one will have these perceptions.
"...vast swaths of the population are waking up from a very long, very bad dream." Yes! And in the face of the tsunami of reactionism from the old-guard, who still for now hold most of the institutional high-ground, we must keep reminding each other of it!
A thought - does resistance come from the feeling that 'we don't want to be duped', or 'that we don't want to be castigated'? In circles that are as addicted to doubt as they believe others are to gullible belief, 'heresy' can be a very uncomfortable place to go. SInce you have at various points in your 'Telepathy Tapes' series referenced Rupert Sheldrake, I can't resist a story. In 2009, I attended a public lecture he gave in London. During the talk, he said that one time he gave a presentation of his work to a small group of scientific peers, and all present had argued vehemently that what he was presenting was not credible. Afterward, every single one of them came to him individually and told him that personally they agreed with his work, but that it that would not be acceptable for them to say so in front of their boss, who was also present. The boss meanwhile came to him and said that he agreed but did not think it acceptable to say so in front of his staff!
Great to hear that lots of people are paying attention to this series - and if the academics are outraged, instead of, say, mildly amused, that shows their insecurity on the issue!
Love the plant analogy too - dead on!
Dream on gal - just as intuitions can be very real, dreams can, and do, sometimes come true!
What a GREAT story about Sheldrake, Michael. That's hilarious, that his boss had the same reticence to "out himself" that his staff had. It's so ridiculous, yet so human. "Don't want to be castigated" has to be as prime a motivator as "don't want to be ostracized."
You're right about the insecurity thing; the handwriting really IS on the wall, and they're terrified.
Thank you for commenting, and I'll soon be returning the favor on your latest, on AI. Been a bit overwhelmed lately.
It's great, no? Must apply in hundreds, thousands, of other cases on all kinds of issues. The writing really is on the wall, but I'm expecting that the old guard will still be around and causing plenty of trouble for quite a long time!
Look forward to your thoughts on 'AI - The Refreshing Truth' and fully understand life being a bit overwhelming. For me too - it's not easy living in 'interesting times'!!
So beautifully and lovingly written Mary. I think you nailed the resistance: they want us to BELIEVE them. They've got an identity-snag going on. If they are not right, then they are no longer the authorities and that's hard. They're basically throwing a tantrum.
The story is so much bigger. Materialism has been a box humans are breaking free from in larger numbers and the whole false-paradigm is going to shite. Yippee!! :-)
Which reminds of this short video I watched this morning. (10mins)
A challenge to a long standing theory on universal grammar. (Largely credited to Noam Chomsky who met the challenge by casting personal attacks on the upending researcher. The question is not yet settled - more are looking into it, but I suspect it's another deep assumption that's about to die.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQnyh_1kqy8
Love this subject and the much larger questions it raises. I have the bones of book called Living Faith: Freeing God from Religion. This is very much the same.
Inquiry and wonder will always exceed any theory - we really can't pin down our reality since it evolves and changes, along with us.
We need bigger minds and hearts to become our new experts.
XOX
The Pirahã! (I'm just now getting to your linked video.) I stumbled upon their existence a while ago, and referenced them in a few essays because their relationship to language absolutely FLOORED me. I watched this clip; did a full documentary ever get released?
It's pretty remarkable, yes. I don't know on whether there is a full documentary. I haven't looked into it. But am definitely curious if the 2nd team verifies his results. (I hope so.)
Thanks for linking this video, Kathleen, both for the content and because it got me to sweep ;-) SO interesting! Linguistics is the key to so much. When Mary writes about 'science' changing from the active voice to the passive voice, it was a revelation. It gives the 'object' agency instead of making it subjective to the perception. It's 'objectivity' as if that's a thing without anyone interpreting it.
I've been noticing that men, in particular, speak in declarative sentences. 'This is this way. Case closed.' Women more often speak from their relationship to the observation, 'I think, I feel.'
As you can see, I started this paragraph with 'I've been noticing ...' So your experience can differ without negating mine. It doesn't shut down the conversation, as it would if I'd written "Men speak in declarative sentences." Then you're either arguing with me or accepting my 'authority.'
Three observations from the video, all of which begin with YES and ...
I recently read about Sanskrit because a commenter on the Doc Malik interview wrote, "Latin is a synthetic language? I thought it evolved from Sanskrit, etc" I answered, "On Latin, I just looked up its relation to Sanskrit and it seems like it would have devolved, if anything. Sanskrit uses musical tonalities and the masterpiece work of its grammar was produced in 450 BCE. It's called the language of the gods for its beauty and subtlety. Latin is an abbreviated language that takes up 2/3rds of the space of indigenous languages to say the same things. It seems to have been developed for lawyers and accountants, with precise meanings for things and quantities but lacking nuance on human relationships. Hebrew is also an administrative language. For Laurent Guyenot's work into the linguistic clues that we've been misled about ancient history, this one references him: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/the-myth-of-ad."
And in this episode, I talk about how indigenous languages have many more words for specifics of human relationships and details of the place where generations had lived: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/when-words-die-worlds-die. Hebrew lacks vowels, which are the relationships between consonants, just like verbs connect nouns. Anthropologist Wade Davis writes, "Language is nothing less than the living expression of a culture, part of what he calls an ethnosphere, ‘the sum total of all the thoughts, dreams, ideals, myths, intuitions, and inspirations brought into being by the imagination since the dawn of consciousness.’ … Language also represents ‘breathtakingly intricate beauty,’ aesthetic and intellectual wealth contained within the invisible folds of sound. Despite languages’ preciousness, one perishes on average every two weeks."
Last, our buddy Noam. I used to think he was once sincere and had developed his ability to think clearly through linguistics. But now I'm suspecting he's always been a fake. His respect for other people's cultures is as shallow as his view of anarchy--which can only be implemented after we solve climate change through global governance. Or his regard for bodily sovereignty, after we evict the unvaxxed from society: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/noam-chomsky-is-the-problem.
Living Faith and freeing God from religion sounds right up my alley. Thank you, Kathleen!
Glad you enjoyed the video, Tereza, and of course I thought of you when listening to it. :-)
"When Mary writes about 'science' changing from the active voice to the passive voice, it was a revelation. It gives the 'object' agency instead of making it subjective to the perception. It's 'objectivity' as if that's a thing without anyone interpreting it."
Glad you noted that - it was a revelation for me too and really, moving to the passive voice, added to the illusion (or the trick as you might say) that there is a clear object/subject divide. Of course we know this is not the case.
(You'd think these experts would be more up on the implications of quantum mechanics and entanglement, wouldn't you?)
Also new to me was Latin as an abbreviated language - seemingly designed to quantify (objectify) things, which is certainly aligned with a materialistic view. It does make a person wonder. How did that come into being in a world of relationships?
Almost as if it was imposed (to replace) or layered over (to distort) a more natural, organic and inclusive language. Almost as if it came with an agenda.
And yes, I so agree on Noam. Used to be a big fan... now it seems he was hijacked long ago and serves the usual forces of control. Covid was the final nail. And truly if he was open minded and curious, then the report on the Piraha would garnered interest and excitement. Instead he was (quite unremarkably) threatened.
Adios old versions of 'expert'. We're moving on. Thanks, T. And glad you got the sweeping done!
Well, you two are off to the races on a subject near and dear to my heart! In fact, for my next post I was (am?) planning to address language -- and your thoughts are FASCINATING. Thank you both for offering up resources! When I'm off the road (traveling for a few days right now) I'll dive more deeply into all. Damn, you two are powerhouses. So grateful to be in your intelligent, expansive sphere...xox!
Freeing God from Religion is a wonderful title! Hope it gets written!
Couldn't agree more, Michael!
Beautiful comment, Kathleen! XOXO
Thanks to Jacqueline for the video, right? It's fascinating stuff!
Yes!! :-)
Looking forward to it!
Try this one - it's longer and doesn't cut off at the really interesting part!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tKbVBePxyU
Thanks, Helen!
Thank you, Kathleen! "The story is so much bigger." Ain't THAT the truth. 😂
You keep leaving delicious breadcrumbs for me that encircle that truth. Pointing me toward Reinette's roundtable was so invaluable! I had flagged it for later, which often relegates it to obscurity I'm sad to say... but your recommendation brought it back to the fore. Both my husband and I benefitted GREATLY from it, thank you!!
And now what really jazzed me about your comment: "I have the bones of a book." Kathleen! I'm so excited! I want to know more, and support you in putting enough flesh on those bones to get it up and moving in the world! Tell me more, friend!!
Finally, I love these gems: "Inquiry and wonder will always exceed any theory" and "We need bigger minds and hearts to become our new experts." Gorgeous. xoxox
As I read through this, the words that kept coming to me were Harmony and Complement.
When the pendulum swings out too far in either intuition or reason, fanaticism follows.
Both are required, in harmony, for a healthy, happy, self-aware individual to find their greatest path.
Harmony and complement, right and left brain, male and female...
Our recent history has been dominated by the left brain, the male energy of reason. Call it "science" if you like. Since the turn of this century, we have been returning to the right brain, female energy of intuition, though none of it has anything to do with males and females.
This after the so-called "women's movement" of the late 20th century, which had nothing to do with right-brain, female energy, but more to do with women expressing more left brain to match their male counterparts. And while it was necessary to counteract male dominance, it did nothing to advance the right brain, female "energy."
This was not the answer, only more of the same predominance of a lack of intuition.
Now this has changed, and we can see everywhere the result of the pendulum swinging back from fanatical left brain dominance into a more nuanced balance.
This is all due to the prescient Shift in Consciousness in which humanity is becoming more self-aware and willing to entertain subject matter that cannot be reproduced in a laboratory.
Men and women everywhere are much more free to express both these energies in balance, in complement, in *harmony*.
Our best work, as usual, is to ignore the so-called "experts" in the peanut galleries of our world, and move forward - advancing interest and acceptance of this female energy of intuition, and recognizing its rightful place in the balance of our physical reality.
A great finish to the series, Mary, and I can't wait to see what comes next for us!
Yes, Philip, we are finding the necessary balance! I will be ECSTATIC to never see another action hero movie where the female lead is a martial arts expert/computer wizard gunning down bad guys in cold blood for the CIA. For decades, we've been told that it's "female empowerment," yet as you say, that kind of male-wannabe crap has done nothing to advance true female energy.
Harmony and Complement... perfect. Always found in "madhya," the middle path.
Thank you, as always, for your insightful comment. I can't wait to see what's next, either! xox
Yes, it's not either or but that we should have both sides of the brain in balance.
I'm male but I had a lot of female influence growing up and pretty much see technology and politics with my right brain. It helps me a lot in work where many are busy focusing on the details, the objects, while I see the machine/system as a whole. Both are important but only recently I've received support by my coworkers and management because things are breaking down in odd ways. I think this is also happening in other places, not just at technical jobs like mine.
The right brain is a great bullshit detector. As McGilchrist explains, it's the master and checks the left brain calculations.
https://robc137.substack.com/p/allergic-to-bullshit
"The mistake that is made by many traditional philosophers, he (Bergson) suggests, is to believe that freeing one’s attention up in this way necessitates turning one’s back on practical life, rather than, in fact, embracing it. ‘One should act like a man of thought’, he wrote, in a memorable formulation, ‘and think like a man of action. "
-Ian McGilchrist from The Matter with Things
From chapter 4 of Ian McGilchrist 's book The Matter with Things:
"One related difference between right and left prefrontal cortex activation is that the left dominates where belief bias points to the correct conclusion, and, by contrast, the right dominates where it does not. Belief bias is in fact generally associated with the left hemisphere, not with the right hemisphere."
Also chapter 4
"To put it crudely, the right hemisphere is our bullshit detector. It is better at avoiding nonsense when asked to believe it, but it is also better at avoiding falling prey to local prejudice and just dismissing rational argument because the argument does not happen to agree with that prejudice"
And here's one of my favorite psychonauts saying it so simply.
“Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.” - Robert Anton Wilson
Thanks, Rob, for the additional McGilchrist quotes -- they're just perfect. And surprising, too. I wouldn't have guessed that "Belief bias is in fact generally associated with the left hemisphere, not with the right hemisphere." I wonder if that's why I noticed more women seeing through the covid nonsense? Or perhaps that's not accurate -- it may be that women were speaking up more b/c they (in general) are more connected to the health of their kids.
Wilson's quote is a keeper, too. I've never heard of him, so thank you for bringing him to my awareness.
One question: what did you mean by "things are breaking down in odd ways"? Just curious...
Sorry it wasn't clear.
I was referring to equipment at work.
A decade or 2 ago, management decided to upgrade reliable and easy to fix old stuff with newer high tech stuff that required less labor to operate. They reduced the workforce by spending money on fancy bullshit.
My fiance is seeing the same issue in her white collar office job, where software that is supposed to make work easier is just causing more headaches. Her workplace is also smaller than it used to be and management is slow to hire more workers despite their needs.
Now it's biting them in the ass because a lot of these things are propietary and complicate things. They're not built to last like the old stuff! So whatever savings they expected is now piling on them.
Even though I'm more tech friendly than my colleagues, I have a difficult time in dealing with the bugs of these systems because they're designed to be serviced only by the manufacturer, some of which have left the business! Replacement is an option but that requires a lot of time, so right now we're kind of hacking our way around the equipment to make it work. I don't see how this is sustainable.
There's a section in this article about how ford is starting to build their own tech for their cars because dealing with propietary systems is the reason why they have issues with their cars.
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-tariffs-abundance
Now I understand; thank you for the explanation, Rob! What a mess. I feel like it's all engineered to make us more and more helpless -- who can fix their own cars, refrigerators, etc. anymore? Let alone their phones or computers? -- AND it's making us spend more and more money on "necessary upgrades." I'm so done with it all. (I'm also looking forward to reading this article you've shared, so thanks for that.)
I worked IT for 30 years and even had my own networking business.
I learned early on that not everything was 1's and 0's.
Energy had everything to do with how things worked.
I believe that I was so successful - because I allowed intuition to guide me along with reason.
I also saw evidence every day of how people with shitty energy had the most problems with their computers. You could set you watch by it.
You made me laugh, Philip! Now I understand why I have computer issues when I'm railing about technology...😂
Mary, half our job was calming down the user, then we'd have a much better chance of success in solving problems.
Of course I just told them that the computers feared me, and they would stop acting up as soon as I showed up.
my customers just knowing I was a phone call or email away made everything work better. They wouldn't get frustrated, and the computers wouldn't react to them.
Lesson here is "always have a good IT guy...".
PEBKAC - "problem exists between keyboard and chair"
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We used to call them ID:10T errors lol but PEBKAC is nice!
I like to put it this way - once one concludes, all growth stops.
Well put, Philip. I really resonated with Mary's description of left brain dominance as the imbalance in our current situation. And I loved that the male is the river, the female is the current, speaking of which!
You describe the psyop of the 'women's movement' perfectly. Harmony is exactly right.
Thank you for bringing this podcast to my attention. I am already a materialism escapee, and this information is at work turning my world upside-down. It's easy for me to feel the unease from the proudly hardcore materialists.
"materialism escapee"! I love that term, Roxanne...😂
I LOVED this so much, Mary, that I'll never read you again ;-)
I have been missing out on the treat of hearing your voice, with all its nuance, snark and inflection, opting instead for 'efficiency.' But this time I was cooking breakfast and missing you, being spoiled from the double-luxury of seeing you in person twice. And it added so much richness hearing the words come alive that I'll never be efficient again!
In the spirit of 'yes and ...' I think it's the opposite of belief that we need. In Manifesting vs Miracles, I wrote about the Tinkerbelle Syndrome, where we think it's up to us and our conviction to make something happen or not happen. That's manifesting, in my use of the word.
The miracle is withdrawing the belief in the 'laws' of the material world, particularly our isolation and disconnectedness. Questioning whether we're really limited in communication. Being willing to doubt the world of our sensory perception and the 'skin-encapsulated ego' we define as our self. Erasing the past as a 'known' predictor of the future. Sinking into the 'now' as a pivot point.
And then letting your experience show you what's real and what's illusion.
Belief, as I define it, is making up your mind in advance of your experience.
Reality/ truth/ God doesn't need our belief in order to be real. It just is. We just need to remove the obstacles to it.
And, of course, this is the day I'm going out to feed and perhaps ride my friend's horses. I'll be telling her all about Kim and Luna. Thank you!
Ah, efficiency. The bane of my existence. 🙄 Thank you for letting me know your experience of listening rather than reading! I'll keep doing it!
Ooh, you make some great points, Tereza. Really thought-provoking and beautifully expressed. I think we'd have to come to an agreement about what the word "belief" really means... but overall I love where you're going with this.
And I miss you, too! I hope you got to ride! xoxox
Yes, I love listening to Mary's voice, as well!
Oh my goodness, Mary. So many gems here, I don't know where to start. I know I sound like a broken record whenever I comment on a post (not just yours) where science is involved. And, logically (pun intended), I know that science and the unexplainable can co-exist..
Although...seriously...is science necessary?? :) I don't know why, but I get bothered when everything that seems extraordinary or unexplainable or magical needs to be validated. Why this need to prove everything?
So much Magic has been educated out of us. I think that art saved me from becoming a “non-believer.” I remember a book from my art education days (even that makes me cringe…art “education” I could have saved myself a lot of money because in the end I just wanted to become part of the abstraction I saw everywhere. The book was titled “Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain” by Betty Edwards. It was the first time I learned of the left/right sides of the brain. Giant fireworks went off in my head when I read that. The right side. The creative side.
I love your explanation of Shiva and Shakti. We need them both. We need the right and the left, the yin and the yang, etc.
I no longer worry about people who arrogantly speak or write like the author of the McGill article. I feel a little sorry for them. He would probably want to have me committed (maybe for experimentation!) I once had a tree talk to me in Ireland. I can't explain it. I wasn't on drugs. I wasn't imagining it. My Irish friend was there as a witness.
I doubt that shamans of old (and present) didn’t/don’t live their lives based on empirical evidence.
Thank you for sharing the beautiful story of Kim and Luna. Years ago, I was at an energy healing workshop where I had a profound experience with a horse. It surely felt like telepathy.
I hope your children do read this exquisite piece, and it opens their minds and hearts. I love the quote on your daughter’s bracelet. I am a lone Magic-believing wolf in my own family…including my adult children. I’m not sure where or from whom I inherited the Magic side. It makes me laugh now to think about how much I hated the science fair. :)
You did “The Telepathy Tapes” proud, Mary. I hope you share your series with Ky Dickens. XOXO
Barbara, I'm so with you. Theatre saved me; it gave me permission to feel, fully and completely, and it taught me how to listen underneath words for the intention behind them. I was never meant for left-brain-dominant living -- though I had no idea of that, for so long! We DO need both.
I am planning to write a bit more about Kim and Luna. She has a stunning anecdote that sounds similar to your profound experience; I just didn't have space in the series for it!
Thank you for your unwavering support, friend. Now go outside again and listen to the tree-folk; they're waiting for you.
All love...xox PS -- great idea re: Ky Dickens! I'll do what I can to make that happen!
"So much Magic has been educated out of us."
100%
Magic, mystery, miracles - I predict all will be making a marvelous (to stay with the 'm's') comeback. XOX
I agree with your wonderful alliteration!
It took me awhile to finally get around to reading this post because I knew I had to soak it in without distraction. I love how you weaves the themes of love and relationship and universal law. This whole series is so darn rich particularly because it does reframe the posited theme: “what is actually wrong with BELIEVING?!?”
You listen to any grand athlete or actor or when scientist and eventually “belief” prefaces their actual work. Babe Ruth would talk about seeing the ball fly over the fence before every home run; some actors can’t even come out of believing they’re the person whose role they play; Tesla believes energy can be entirely free way before he designed a coil.
Thank you for also sharing the story of Luna- reminds me of that scheme in Avatar where the horse and the rider have to link up spiritually/physically before they can fly into the skies.
This series of essays should be what’s printed for public view not the hogwash “debunking” it. I encourage you to submit all three parts as a whole for the op-Ed section of the same publication.
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I'm so touched that you took the time to "soak" in this series, Tonika. 🙏🏼
You're 100% right about the primordial, driving force of belief... it's what sets it all in motion. Without it, we're slugs in the mud. (No offense, slugs.)
I really wonder what McGill's publication would think of my series. That's such a great idea! I'm going to see if they even accept Op-Eds...😂👏
Thanks for the comment. I always love your take on my stuff. AS YOU KNOW. xox!
Mutual! 😍❤️🤗
Hi Mary, I'm embarrassed to say that I was the one complaining that I had to wait two weeks for this last installment to your TTT series, and then it took me another week to finally get here. Better late than never, I guess. Sometimes, timing does matter, so I am glad that I came back, especially to read your quote:
"It makes sense to me that relationship.... is a fundamental universal law, perhaps even the fundamental universal law, because there is one energy that underlies, supports, and weaves this whole impossibly vast tapestry together: love." That hits the nail on the head, Mary, and coincides with what I had just written about "Revolutionary Relationship". I'm all about relationship, not that I do it all that well, which is why I need to "practice it". I used the Trinity as a model, but Kim and Luna, and Helen and Anne, are also perfect models for us to follow as well.
Anyway, that's my take-away after my second reading, and I thank you, Mary, for all your hard work in researching, pondering, and writing these fabulous essays. Uh-Oh, I just got another "Mary" Inspiration, as in "Mary, the mother of Jesus". She was the one who did all that "pondering" after being told what was in store for her. You're quite the "ponderer" yourself, Mary.
I'm always happy to hear your thoughts, no matter when they float in here...😊
Relationship is where the true transformation for all of us lies... that's why it's so effing difficult!! I've certainly been experiencing that phenomenon lately.
Sheesh... I don't think there's any higher compliment than being compared -- even tangentially -- to THE Mary. So thank you, humbly. Big love to you, Ronnie. xoxo
What a beautiful piece. Thanks to you Mary I have listened to all the tapes out so far. I am in tears much of the time as it is all so inspirational and ...and... I don't even have a word that encapsulates what I feel- beyond beautiful!! I haven't paid one ounce of attention to the naysayers. In fact I sometimes felt like she didn't need to keep going on about how well the experiments were done. I just believed. I guess it comes down to if one believes that we are so much more then these physical bodies or not. Thank you so much for your heartfelt and stunning sharing.
Oh Nan, your comment fills me with joy. I'm so very glad that your experience listening to TTT moved you in this way! I felt just the same. I've thought that I didn't fully express in this series how it moved me -- I was so intent on getting people who were skeptical to ask themselves WHY they were conditioned to reject it -- but to know that my work actually induced you to listen... well, I feel like I did what I set out to do. So thank you for letting me know. xox
Amazing writings to bring us further. Thank you so much for this. I read the three parts with great interest and much emotions/reflexions.
You ask "What do you think about telepathy, or consciousness"?
If I may share my thoughts, I am not a young pigeon but it seems that I have always think that telepathy was natural to any human being (and some animals also). To me it is only a question of recognizing and developing it.
I for one, as I grew older, realized that many, many times I can fell what other people are feeling, almost instantly when I am in close contact with them, and often too when they are far away. More likely if they think about me? But I don't think I have special abilities. I think this kind of perception is within each of us.
Then, the more consciousness one has about his feelings and inner space, the more one will have these perceptions.
"...vast swaths of the population are waking up from a very long, very bad dream." Yes! And in the face of the tsunami of reactionism from the old-guard, who still for now hold most of the institutional high-ground, we must keep reminding each other of it!
A thought - does resistance come from the feeling that 'we don't want to be duped', or 'that we don't want to be castigated'? In circles that are as addicted to doubt as they believe others are to gullible belief, 'heresy' can be a very uncomfortable place to go. SInce you have at various points in your 'Telepathy Tapes' series referenced Rupert Sheldrake, I can't resist a story. In 2009, I attended a public lecture he gave in London. During the talk, he said that one time he gave a presentation of his work to a small group of scientific peers, and all present had argued vehemently that what he was presenting was not credible. Afterward, every single one of them came to him individually and told him that personally they agreed with his work, but that it that would not be acceptable for them to say so in front of their boss, who was also present. The boss meanwhile came to him and said that he agreed but did not think it acceptable to say so in front of his staff!
Great to hear that lots of people are paying attention to this series - and if the academics are outraged, instead of, say, mildly amused, that shows their insecurity on the issue!
Love the plant analogy too - dead on!
Dream on gal - just as intuitions can be very real, dreams can, and do, sometimes come true!
What a GREAT story about Sheldrake, Michael. That's hilarious, that his boss had the same reticence to "out himself" that his staff had. It's so ridiculous, yet so human. "Don't want to be castigated" has to be as prime a motivator as "don't want to be ostracized."
You're right about the insecurity thing; the handwriting really IS on the wall, and they're terrified.
Thank you for commenting, and I'll soon be returning the favor on your latest, on AI. Been a bit overwhelmed lately.
Big hugs, friend! xox
It's great, no? Must apply in hundreds, thousands, of other cases on all kinds of issues. The writing really is on the wall, but I'm expecting that the old guard will still be around and causing plenty of trouble for quite a long time!
Look forward to your thoughts on 'AI - The Refreshing Truth' and fully understand life being a bit overwhelming. For me too - it's not easy living in 'interesting times'!!
Hugs back at ya.